73 / Moon dust
Bringing things we learned from crypto back to Earth

In this episode, we delve into the fascinating concept of moon dust: bringing back ideas from the 2021 crypto bull markets to the real world. We examine the multifaceted dimensions of this idea, including Token-curated registries, their implications, and how moon dust fits into this wider narrative. Tune in as we explore if regulators are prepared for this paradigm shift.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

01:17 TCR article

07:35 Specific example: bet on high school basketball

09:34 First moon dust paper

10:28 Auditable versioned databases

12:12 Better audits with Merkle proofs

12:45 Will regulators buy it?

15:23 Minimizing email discovery w Merkle

18:20 What is moon dust?

Badges

@fulldecent

William Entriken Stayed to end

@dtedesco1

Daniel Tedesco Stayed to end

@t012n4d0

??? Stayed to end

@037

AKM Stayed to end

@thewhyman

??? Stayed to end

@scarletdeth

Alice Eidson Stayed to end

Episode notes

• Token curated registries intro
• TCR, the paradox
• Moon dust, auditable versioned databases and the GitHub repo

• @fulldecent: Blog post // https://blog.phor.net/2018/06/09/Token-curated-registries-the-uses-and-exploits.html
  • Seminal paper https://medium.com/@ilovebagels/token-curated-registries-1-0-61a232f8dac7
• @fulldecent: Blog post // https://blog.phor.net/2023/04/23/Moon-dust-auditable-versioned-databases.html
• @fulldecent: is Braintrust a security? https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1638652795329847300

TWEET

• Q: What is moon dust?

  A: Some people went to the moon. Not everybody is going. And we saw some great ideas there. We are bringing those ideas back to Earth to make existing businesses better.

• Blog post [https://blog.phor.net/2018/06/09/Token-curated-registries-the-uses-and-exploits.html

  ](https://blog.phor.net/2018/06/09/Token-curated-registries-the-uses-and-exploits.html)Shout outs to @ConsenSys Mike Goldin, and @augurproject

  Token-curated registries are the precursor to “distributed autonomous organizations”.

• New paper https://blog.phor.net/2023/04/23/Moon-dust-auditable-versioned-databases.html

  This is the longer paper and talk on auditable versioned databases… first discussed at DeSciNYC… now developed into the full paper, GitHub repo example and now this episode.

  Greetz to @DeSciNYC community!

• Thank you for staying to the end of the show!

Longest Running blockchain (Surety Company) - Stewart Haber & Bell labs wanted to digitally notarize things in 1995 - used a hash of things that they notarized and published (all hashes) in New York times for 23yrs 52 issues.